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"Talented and dedicated engineers spent countless hours designing Japan’s rail system to be one of the world’s most efficient. Could have just asked a slime mold. When presented with oat flakes arranged in the pattern of Japanese cities around Tokyo, brainless, single-celled slime molds construct networks of nutrient-channeling tubes that are strikingly similar to the layout of the Japanese rail system." 
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"After a disaster, this robotic spider can shuffle into tight spaces for assessing damage or for search & rescue."
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"Here is an interesting idea for a helmet, designed for motorcyclists but that might work for cyclists and skateboarders down the road."
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"How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature."(watch Michael Pawlyn at TEDSalon in London http://www.ted.com)
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"A group of researchers from the University of Bristol have created artificial muscles that can change their state and appearance at the push of a button..."
Photo details: Brachydanio rerio. Copyright © 2005, Marrabbio2, public domain
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"Arnold Glas has developed Ornilux, a spider-web inspired glass that reduces bird strikes into windows by an estimated 75 percent."
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"Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird...(watch the TED video)"
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"The company EvoLogics has developed an underwater glider that moves with wing propulsion like fin rays (check the video)"
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"BioHaven® floating islands biomimic natural floating islands to create a “concentrated” wetland effect that improves removal of nitrate, ammonia and phosphate several fold."
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"A team of scientists headed up by Princeton University has achieved a whopping 47 percent increase in electricity generation from flexible plastic solar cells, simply by texturing the surface to mimic the wrinkles of a typical leaf."
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Wyss Institute scientists have created a material that mimics the hard outer skin of bugs. The result is low-cost and easily manufactured, and tough. It eventually might provide a more environmentally friendly alternative to plastic.
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It's time for the third annual Tommies, Tom McKeag's pick of the top 10 bio-inspired innovations of 2011 -- and a look at the lessons that Namib desert beetles, crickets, Mantis Shrimp and more can teach us about sustainability.
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The University of Utah is to fund the creation of a colourful array of photovoltaic panels shaped like leaves -- "Solar Ivy" -- that can be used to cover buildings in order to generate energy from the Sun's rays...
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"Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids have looked to nature to develop a relatively simple and inexpensive method of producing calcium carbonate lenses packed together in a regular arrangement. The researchers took inspiration from the brittle star (Ophiocoma wendtii), which is studded with tiny crystalline lenses made of calcium carbonate, that together form a type of compound eye."
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"The idea of designing a drone after the maple seed has been around for awhile. But finally, researchers have made it happen."
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"A team of biophysicists at Rockefeller University recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters about a new way to design distribution networks based on the veins that carry water and nutrients in most leaves."
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"By observing the inner workings of an octopus's leg or an elephant's trunk, scientists have created muscles from carbon nanotubes that could one day power machines."
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"(The documentary) Second Nature: The Biomimicry Evolution explores the emerging discipline of biomimicry, the science of emulating nature's best ideas to solve human problems. Set in the wilds of South Africa, the film follows biologist, author Janine Benyus [...] as she illustrates how organisms in Nature can teach us how to be more efficient and sustainable engineers, chemists, architects, and business leaders." (check the 8 min trailer)
Photo details: Red-Necked Phalarope (Male) , Wright's Pond, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon. Copyright © 2008, Alan D. Wilson. http://www.naturespicsonline.com
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"The Emory Bio-Inspired Renewable Energy Center studies photosynthesis and other tricks of Mother Nature, with the goal of tapping sunlight to generate cheap and clean sources of hydrogen fuel. "
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"One of the m0st active practioners of Biomimicry, the company Interface Flor features at its web site a portfolio of biomimetic products from other players"
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"Who would have guessed that the design of an electric passenger train had been influenced by animal biology?"
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The bombardier beetle, which sprays its predators with toxic steam, inspired research into a new generation of technology at the University of Leeds.
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Scientists have detected special nerve cells in pigeons' brains that can detect the intensity and direction of magnetic fields.
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"The Da Vinci Index is the first economic index measuring activity in biomimcry and/or bio-inspired research and commercial application."
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